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I bought a 250gb xbox slim back in December. The thing is brutally loud when a disc is in the tray. I went to Wal-mart this week and swapped it out for a new one. The new one does the same thing. I recorded a quick video of the sound, I'm not sure how well it comes out but this can't possibly be the "normal" expected sound.

I've tried standing it vertically and horizontally and tried numerous games. All sound identical. I literally have to turn up the volume on my reciever to drown out the incessent buzzing. It's horrible.

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You should definitely install games to your hard drive. I've got some drives that make the loud noise but I've got a couple quiet ones as well. Its more uncommon to have a quiet drive than a loud one when it comes to the 360.

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have you tried moving it to another surface? maybe whatever you have it on makes the problem more pronounced.

I would take that one back too

this. I used to have my old 360 on my dresser next the wife's betta fish tank thing. The damn metal lid on the fish tank would make this loud vibrating noise....for days i thought the 360 was just dying until i realized it was the surrounding setup it was on

I haven't used the new slim 360's but sounds about as loud as my jasper Warefare 2 edition. I would say install the game and ALL games on your hard drive. I never play any games off the disc anymore. It seems like it takes the life out of the drive by having games ran off it. Every last bit of life helps from getting those red rings

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